Konstantin Vladimirovich Prikhodtchenko (russian: Константин Владимирович Приходченко; born 29 March 1972 in
Belgorod
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) is a Russian sport shooter. He won a silver medal for the 50 m rifle three positions at the
2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in
Lahti, Finland
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, with a score of 1255.4 points. He is also a member of CSKA Moscow and is coached and trained by Victor Vlasov.
At age thirty-two, Prikhodtchenko made his official debut for the
2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens
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, where he placed twenty-ninth in the preliminary rounds of the
men's 10 m air rifle, for a total score of 589 points, tying his position with three other shooters including Slovenia's
Rajmond Debevec.
At the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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, Prikodtchenko competed only in two rifle shooting events. He scored a total of 698.4 points (595 in the preliminary rounds and 103.4 in the final), and a bonus of 10.0 from a shoot-off (against Hungary's
Péter Sidi) in the
men's 10 m air rifle, finishing only in fifth place. Few days later, Prikodtchenko placed fifth again this time in the
50 m rifle prone, by one tenth of a point (0.1) behind Norway's
Vebjørn Berg, with a total score of 699.0 points (595 in the preliminary rounds and 104 in the final).
References
External links
NBC 2008 Olympics profile
Russian male sport shooters
Living people
Olympic shooters of Russia
Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
People from Belgorod
1972 births
Sportspeople from Belgorod Oblast
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